My only issue is what if you start as a single artist but it gets so popular you become a corporation?
Like if your little cat guy gets popular enough you make a bunch of merch, maybe a video game, get offered funding to make a TV show… When does it switch? I could totally see this abused like “yeah we want a cat-guy show on Netflix! Here’s 100k to make it… Aw shame you are now above the personal limit so your copyright no longer exists so we will make it ourselves and you get no money!”
As I outlined previously I think this would involve somebody or a lot of somebody’s a lot smarter than me writing very elaborate law to fill in all the edge cases but yes.
I see the intent but can also imagine so much abuse… “yeah I own the copyright privately, yeah megacorp finances me, and yeah I technically own and control megacorp but the copy right is privately owned… Why are you asking all these questions?”
You could say the same about taxes or murder. Yeah rich assholes find ways around laws. Grug know that this known quantity. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have laws about it.
I’m also not some kind of brilliant legal mind. So I accept that I would be under qualified to construct the laws.
My only issue is what if you start as a single artist but it gets so popular you become a corporation?
Like if your little cat guy gets popular enough you make a bunch of merch, maybe a video game, get offered funding to make a TV show… When does it switch? I could totally see this abused like “yeah we want a cat-guy show on Netflix! Here’s 100k to make it… Aw shame you are now above the personal limit so your copyright no longer exists so we will make it ourselves and you get no money!”
As I outlined previously I think this would involve somebody or a lot of somebody’s a lot smarter than me writing very elaborate law to fill in all the edge cases but yes.
I see the intent but can also imagine so much abuse… “yeah I own the copyright privately, yeah megacorp finances me, and yeah I technically own and control megacorp but the copy right is privately owned… Why are you asking all these questions?”
That’s like any law though this isn’t a gotcha.
You could say the same about taxes or murder. Yeah rich assholes find ways around laws. Grug know that this known quantity. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have laws about it.
I’m also not some kind of brilliant legal mind. So I accept that I would be under qualified to construct the laws.